There are approximately 6,000 children in Texas awaiting adoption, and many of them come from the southern Texas area. The Child Protective Services for our state has been attempting to publicize profiles of many of the children awaiting adoption in hopes that...
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Month: October 2012
More couple signing prenuptial agreements
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 25, 2012 | Divorce
Houston family law clients are more often asking attorneys to prepare prenuptial agreements than have been drawn up in the past. Prenuptial agreements are also getting more imaginative in the wording and conditions, and individuals seemingly are more aware that their...
Child support delinquency rate approaches 40 percent
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 22, 2012 | Child Support
We recently reported that unpaid child support in Texas amounts to approximately $11 billion. We now find the delinquency rate for child support in one particular Texas County is at 39 percent. This percentage matched a number of other Texas counties as well, and...
International child custody dispute in Texas
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 18, 2012 | Child Custody
A Texas father is currently involved in an international child custody dispute. The father and the mother of the child were at one time engaged to each other, and the mother is a British native. However, when the couple took their child to the United Kingdom for a...
Rate of domestic violence extremely high in Houston area
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 15, 2012 | Domestic Violence
The highest rate reported domestic violence in the state of Texas occurs in Harris County. Unfortunately, Harris County also has the highest number of deaths that occur due to domestic violence as well.It was reported that 35 women were killed in Harris County in 2010...
Need in Texas for parents seeking adoption
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 11, 2012 | Adoption
There are approximately 6,000 children awaiting adoption in Texas. Sadly, there are too few foster homes currently to provide some children with any sort of stability whatsoever.Most children are moved on average 2.8 times before any formal adoption takes place. For...
Getting on with life after divorce
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 8, 2012 | Divorce
"Whatever happened to the person I married?" That's a question that spouses ask all the time, and that's especially true when couples' divorce. After a divorce, rather than working together to achieve goals mutually, a couple may now being actively pursuing ends that...
Billions of dollars in unpaid child support owed state wide
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 4, 2012 | Child Support
It has been reported by the Houston Chronicle that unpaid child support is nearing $11 billion. Though there may be a wide variety of reasons for why this figure is so high, such a statistic does not bode well for the number of parents that are concerned about the...
Child custody and in vitro fertilization
On Behalf of Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. | Oct 1, 2012 | Child Custody
A case is scheduled to be heard in Texas concerning mothers delivering children through the process of in vitro fertilization. It appears to be the first case of its kind in that it will involve a child custody dispute between the woman that delivered a pair of twins...
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